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#SalimbalSketches returns! It's been a while since the Oscars -- guess you can tell we've all been kind of buried in work -- but for those of you planning a movie marathon over the next few days (the tail end of Holy Week is a public holiday in the Philippines) here are some tributes by Salimbal members to their favorite films of 2014… and a picture of a girl and a dog form Cristina, because when she saw "Best Picture" as our theme, she immediately thought that it simply must be an image of a cute dog with a cute girl. Never change Tina ;)

Studio Salimbal will be represented at the Visprint Writers In Talks event this Saturday. Mervin Malonzo will be at the Writer's Lifestyle panel, then he'll join Paolo Chikiamco, and Budjette Tan (maybe) for the Komiks Talk panel, and Paolo sticks around for the Publishing 101 panel immediately after. (We may pop into other panels as well, because we have problems shutting up at times.)

Those attending will likely be available for signing books when not on their panels, and many of the books themselves will be discounted, so come on by!

Here's our next #SalimbalSketches member roundup for 2015. The topic this week was "Marriage", a special topic because one of our members is tying the knot today! (Not sure if he wants us to say who he is, but congratulations!) The times for the quick sketches ranged from 10 minutes to around 90. As always, feel free to join in, just tag your images with #SalimbalSketches so we can find them.

Here's our next #SalimbalSketches member roundup for 2015. The topic this week was "Chinese New Year." The times for the quick sketches ranged from 10 minutes to around 90. As always, feel free to join in, just tag your images with #SalimbalSketches so we can find them.

Here's our second #SalimbalSketches member roundup for 2015. The topic this week was "Sirena." The times for the quick sketches ranged from 10 minutes to around 90. As always, feel free to join in, just tag your images with #SalimbalSketches so we can find them.

With 2015 comes the return of one of our most popular activities -- #SalimbalSketches ! This time we're limiting sketches to those that take 2 hours maximum to do, and some are churned out in less than a minute, so you may see a lot of variation in the results. We're also doing them within the Studio initially, as they have a week prior to the blog post to get their works in, but if you'd like to do your own interpretations of our themes, feel free!

For those who want Mythspace in digital format, we've got great news! In cooperation with Flipside, the first five single issues in the Mythspace universe are now available at three additional digital retailers: iTunes, Kobo, and Google Play. Simply head to the comic page for each to see the new links, as well as the older links to the issues on Gumroad and Flipreads.

Komiks fans in the southern Metro -- we're coming your way! Paolo Chikiamco and Noel Pascual of the Studio will be taking part in an event on November 30, at Evia Lifestyle Center (see the map!). Buy comics (including the latest Visprint titles such as Mythspace!) , prints, and merchandise, and chat with local comic creators. Others attending include:

We're all excited to have Andrew Drilon joining our Studio, and for his upcoming new comic WHAPAK! Long-time pal Elbert Or spoke to Andrew about his work so far, and what's to come. And hey, let's throw in a preview for WHAPAK! while we're at it:

We're all excited to have Andrew Drilon joining our Studio, and for his upcoming new comic WHAPAK! Long-time pal Elbert Or spoke to Andrew about his work so far, and what's to come. And hey, let's throw in a preview for WHAPAK! while we're at it:

At the coming Komikon, we'll be hosting a debut comic from some friends of the Studio - "Inside Edith" (PHP150) is drawn by Jem Bernaldez and written by Rai Villanueva. It's a horror title, but one for a good cause: profits will go to the medical care of their friend who was diagnosed with POTT'S DISEASE, where his spine is continually deteriorating, which may cause his lower body to become paralyzed due to multiple compression. Here's a brief description of the comic:

Let Koi Carreon's awesome new cover serve as your official invitation, dear reader: You are all cordially invited to the launch of MYTHSPACE Volume 1, from Visprint, Inc. Compiling the first eight independently published issues of Mythspace, with revamped artwork, a folklore guide, and an introduction from Trese co-creator Budjette Tan.

Massive congratulations to Budjette Tan and Borg Sinaban for winning the Best Book of Graphic Literature in Filipino (Borg, for PilandoKomiks Isyu 2: Mga Pagsubok ng Karagatan) and Best Book of Graphic Literature in English (Budjette, writer for the Dark Colony Book I). Studio Salimbal, represent!

The Philippine Literary Festival is a new event being sponsored by National Book Store and Raffles Makati from October 23 to October 25. Visprint comics creators -- including Mervin Malonzo, Elbert Or, and Mythspace creators Koi Carreon, Paolo Chikiamco, Cristina Rose Chua, and Jules Gregorio -- will be at the event, at Ballroom 2 specifically, from 3pm onwards for an exhibit, sketching, and signing.

Tintin's "Comics School Manila" is hosting a roundtable discussion called PATHS TO PUBLISHING: A free discussion among creators and enthusiasts about new avenues in publishing: webcomics, ashcans, minicomics, graphic novels, and traditional pamphlet comics....what can you do now, and how can you get readers? Paolo Chikiamco and Elbert Or will also be there. You can got the Facebook page here, or read on for more info:

Last week, the topic for #SalimbalSketches was Philippine-themed Guardians of the Galaxy fan art. From Filipino-themed space characters to mash-ups with Mythspace, we have a new batch of #SalimbalSketches to share with you all. Thank you to everyone who participated, and to Guardians of the Galaxy for being an awesome movie.

It's a space opera kind of week isn't it? If you're looking for more after Guardians of the Galaxy and the Mythspace bundle, you're in luck -- this week is the official digital release of Mythspace: Unfurling of Wings #1, a very human coming-of-age story that just so happens to star someone who isn't human at all! This week sees the official release of Unfurling of Wings #1 by Paolo Chikiamco and Borg Sinaban -- it's the first time this story has been made available digitally (we divided the physical issue into two parts).

We've been running #SalimbalSketches events over the past few weeks, and after the massive success that was the #PinoyMagicalGirls theme, we decided to put together a short F.A.Q.

What is #SalimbalSketches ?

Patterned after #SketchDailies, #SalimbalSketches is an event that prompts creators to make artworks that fall under a weekly theme or subject. The submissions are collected every Friday in a post that also announces the theme or subject for the following week..

Nominees are now being accepted for the 4th Komikon Readers' Choice Awards. The awards this year cover the period from July 2011 to December 2013 -- that's a long span of time, one where Studio Salimbal did not yet exist. But all of us were active in komiks during that time, so here's a list of our members and/or works that are elibile to be nominated, in case you need to jog your memories. :)

Well, this week's #SalimbalSketches was A-MA-ZING. Maybe that's because we had two weeks to do the art due to last week's storm, or maybe it's because Philippine Magical Girls is something we should be doing ALL THE TIME YOU GUYS. Regardless, there's some excellent excellent work here, and thank you to everyone who participated!

And now we have a title for Tin's ongoing 4-koma! As you may have inferred, "Filjoshi" is a hybrid of "Filipino" and "Fujoshi", the latter referring to, according to the Urban Dictionary: "Ironical self-description by readers of Yaoi Doujinshi. The female counterpart to the male Otaku."

Today is the first weekly update for "Come With Me", the short comic Butch Mapa illustrated (collaborating with Tim Switalski, and E.T Dollman) for a story by Dan Hill. It's a short comic, only twelve pages long, but it can do a lot with only a few pages because it derives from a very old story with a very long history.

Makina was probably the first story I had ever pitched to Mervin. This was during the Aklatan event when I was selling Crime-Fighting Call Center Agents at one of the tables and I got to hang out with him along some of our other friends in indie komiks . He liked the concept I pitched and we had been working on that story on-and-off ever since. (Makina, by the way, is going to be one of our longer works under Studio Salimbal, you have to watch out for it.)

I'll always be grateful to Star Wars (which in my heart will forever include the expanded universe, no matter what Disney says). I don't even remember when I first watched it, or even if I watched it in a movie theatre or a bootleg copy on Betamax -- it's just always been part of the background noise in my brain, as far back as I can remember.

... well, actually, if you want to be strict about it, this is more like Phase Four or Five... a lot of people have been putting in a lot of work into Studio Salimbal over the past year, and even beyond that. We've been pestering people on social networks, we were at the Summer Komikon, we even held that launch event back on April 6... but this milestone, the website launch, it feels like a beginning. For good reason: the Internet is a big part of our identity as a studio.